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So my home portfolio dropped 22% today. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 12, 16:10 2
- Kilbo should never be allowed to invest in anything ever again. -- nm - David Mar 12, 16:11 1
  - I should have not listened to any of you and just sold off 2 weeks ago. - Will Hunting Mar 12, 16:12
Justin Trudeau is self-isolating just in case. -- nm - Diva Mar 12, 16:03
Trump is suspending his rallies. -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 16:00 2
- No need for that, let 'em congregate. VERY CLOSE. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 12, 16:14
- "Sir, the virus affects people. You're a people!" -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 16:01
U.K. authorities have abandoned efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus and will focus on delaying the worst of the outbreak; 10,000+ infected -- (link) - Beaker Mar 12, 15:57 1
- Good thing they're exempted from the travel ban! -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 15:59
Futures open down another 2%. Prepare the Dow 20K hats! -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 15:40 7
- I’m sure the missile attack we just launched will do wonders for that. -- nm - spamlet Mar 12, 15:55
- *wonders how to alter that DOW 30,000 hat I bought in anticipation -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 15:42 1
  - ad an N after the W -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 12, 15:44
- 19827 -- nm - mud Mar 12, 15:42
- 2016 levels -- nm - budice Mar 12, 15:41 2
  - So what you're saying is that a Republican comes into office and wipes away what the Democrats did to recover in their years? Keep at it America! -- nm - JackDawson Mar 12, 15:42 1
    - Basically. W ended with the market down from where he started. - Reagen Mar 12, 15:46
LOL. Mom: "Well, there are free tests in the clinic here, so you can get tested upon arrival if you're nervous." Remind me which is the 3rd world co - JackDawson Mar 12, 15:38 7
- Wow. - Dark Callisto Mar 12, 15:47 6
  - "Go to Mexico." -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 16:01
  - Of relevance here- this article claims that in SENEGAL you can get free tests with results within hours -- (link) - JackDawson Mar 12, 15:52
  - yeah I mean they are being very explicit about it here in NYC. don't even bother asking -- nm - JackDawson Mar 12, 15:50 3
    - And the thing is that while it's fair to say the spread of the virus would likely happen anyway, the failure to be prepared and possibly slow it is - pmb Mar 12, 15:57 2
      - (which is in no small part due to the GOP) -- nm - JackDawson Mar 12, 16:05
      - To this and to the current woeful state of our healthcare system -- nm - JackDawson Mar 12, 16:05
Surveillance: Feds' FISA Authority set to expire Sunday -- (link) - budice Mar 12, 15:31
I went into work on my off day when asked, place was at Harvey-level disaster. The shelves were picked clean in many places. - Qale Mar 12, 15:31 1
- oh, good, the hurricane, not weinstein -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 15:33
Alberta joins the "no big gatherings" list -- (link) - Reagen Mar 12, 15:29 3
- "No, big gatherings!" -- nm - con_carne Mar 12, 15:36
- When did 250 become the magical number -- nm - budice Mar 12, 15:30 1
  - Dr Henry emphasized that it's not a scientific cutoff, so even some smaller events should consider cancelling -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 16:12
Universal Studios Hollywood is closing from March 14 through March 28 because of coronavirus -- nm - budice Mar 12, 15:24
But we got the big envelope! - Dark Callisto Mar 12, 15:21 3
- And he was hoping to major in advanced physics, with a particular interest in string theory. -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 15:29
- This should make it way easier for him to gather more information and interact with other students as they suggest :-) -- nm - Meg Mar 12, 15:28
- *sad cry* -- nm - budice Mar 12, 15:23
This is a weird day at the office. News and decisions are rolling down a hill, picking up speed. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 15:17 4
- That's how the cascade works. -- nm - David Mar 12, 16:05
- This coming Monday and Tuesday, boy I don't know. -- nm - Max Mar 12, 15:18 2
  - "At this rate, by Tuesday it will be Thursday. By Wednesday it will be August, and by Thursday it will be the end of existence as we know it!" -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 15:55
  - I think the world is practically stopped by Monday morning. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 15:22
*whine* it's been pouring rain all day and doesn't look like stopping time soon. And I know there's mail out there in the mailbox :( - Meg Mar 12, 15:11 1
- Dashed out there anyway, and along with the package I was expecting also got my census form, or actually the letter asking me to complete it online. -- nm - Meg Mar 12, 15:27
Scottish dinosaur news -- (link) - Peglegpete Mar 12, 15:11
Katie Porter gets the CDC to commit to free testing & treatment for Coronavirus regardless of insurance coverage. -- (link) - budice Mar 12, 15:07 11
- Saw on Twitter uninsured People in Seattle are being charged $1,600 for just a test ($250 min with insurance) -- nm - decline Mar 12, 15:18
- When you see Katie's whiteboard, it's already too late. -- nm - Max Mar 12, 15:17
- Y'all fail for not having told me about this person before. *CROSS EXAMINATION TECHNIQUE BONER* -- nm - JackDawson Mar 12, 15:10 7
  - How could you have not seen her take apart bankers who brushed her off as a chubby lil lady, sir this is the university text book I wrote.... -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 12, 15:41
  - She narrowly won her seat in the 2018. I think her election was the one that narrowly completed the blue-ning of Orange County -- nm* - con_carne Mar 12, 15:40
  - Oh, yes we have. -- (link) - David Mar 12, 15:15 [Backboard] 3
    - Please link me someone I don't have blocked!!! -- nm - JackDawson Mar 12, 15:37 2
      - You posted *in the thread*! -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 15:39 1
        
        oh shit -- nm - JackDawson Mar 12, 15:40
  - Acolyte of Liz Warren when she was a Law Professor -- nm - budice Mar 12, 15:12
- Just testing, I thought, not treatment? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 15:08
Honest question... What is the holdup on getting Covid19 tests out there, and what is the federal government supposed to have done about it? -- nm - Ender Mar 12, 15:01 7
- Use the tests the rest of the world was using successfully and put a shit ton of money into creating more test kits to replicate -- nm - JackDawson Mar 12, 15:06
- Apparently our govt didn’t want the WHO test but instead develop our own. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 12, 15:02 5
  - Trump wanted his people to make $ on it. -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 15:30
  - And the first batch they did failed. -- nm - spamlet Mar 12, 15:03 3
    - I thought the tests were beautiful? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 12, 15:05 2
      - they're perfect, like the phone call -- nm - fakeprez Mar 12, 15:07
      - A perfect test. Great scores. Everyone is being very positive about it. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 15:07
Chelsea Manning has been released from prison by a judge. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 14:57 2
- Good -- nm - TWuG Mar 12, 14:59 1
  - She snuck out with coronavirus. -- nm - Max Mar 12, 15:01
CHL (Canadian major junior hockey leagues) on pause - Reagen Mar 12, 14:55 2
- I have a part of a season ticket package. Had tickets tomorrow and Saturday. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 12, 15:16 1
  - I had briefly investigated a trip over the next week to see some Oiler games. -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 15:23
My last business flight got canceled. Borderlands 3 downloading. -- nm - colin Mar 12, 14:55
Wait, someone found out, IN THE AIR that they are positive?! -- nm - JackDawson Mar 12, 14:54 12
- Matt Gaetz found out he was exposed on Air Force One. -- nm* - pmb Mar 12, 15:16
- It takes a major idiot not to self quarantine while waiting on a test result... -- nm - Ender Mar 12, 14:56 9
  - How do you rate someone that was in a wedding that got at least a handful of confirmed cases and refuses to test? - Marlowe Mar 12, 15:18
  - Nah, just go run errands and go about your life. It’ll be fine. -- nm - spamlet Mar 12, 15:04
  - "How soon can you land?" "I can't tell." "You can tell me, I'm a doctor." "I mean I'm not sure." "Can't you take a guess?" "Not for another two hours" - Max Mar 12, 15:00
  - On that note, my best friend and his parents are currently quarantined... - Ender Mar 12, 14:58
  - idiot is putting it kindly -- nm - JackDawson Mar 12, 14:56 4
    - What this incident is telling us is that every zombie movie ever made is optimistic. -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 14:57 3
      - I've probably been too harsh on 28 Weeks Later... -- nm - Ender Mar 12, 14:59 1
        
        and definitely on The Walking Dead -- nm - Beaker Mar 12, 15:55
      - It drives me mad that I can't just walk in to a clinic and get tested. I have insurance. I will pay. (I wouldn't dare ask when there are people wit - JackDawson Mar 12, 14:59
- MILE HIGH FLUB -- nm - Max Mar 12, 14:55
Disney delaying Mulan, NewMutants -- (link) - budice Mar 12, 14:51 15
- See, kilbo and mud? NM and QPII are the two I mentioned wanting to see. So glad I got out of AMC for now. -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 15:27 1
  - They’re offering one month refunds if you don’t want to cancel per twitter. -- nm - spamlet Mar 12, 15:37
- HSX is all red today, it's wild. -- nm - colin Mar 12, 14:53
- How many theaters are going to go out of business because of this? -- nm - decline Mar 12, 14:52 2
  - Smaller theaters not supported by a big chain are at risk. Worst comes to worst, the actual theaters will close for a while, but be able to re-open - sycor Mar 12, 14:55 1
    - I imagine it's the hourly workers who are more at risk... -- nm - Ender Mar 12, 15:02
- Poor New Mutants. The movie that just can't get released. -- nm - sycor Mar 12, 14:51 8
  - Same with The Hunt. -- nm - Ender Mar 12, 14:54 5
    - Hunt comes out this weekend. -- nm - sycor Mar 12, 14:55 4
      - On a weekend where no one's going to leave their house. -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 14:58 3
        
        Yeah, that’s the reason it will fail. -- nm - spamlet Mar 12, 15:03 2
        
        it's not gonna help. -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 15:05 1
        
        I mean that’s gonna be what they say but it was going down anyways. -- nm - spamlet Mar 12, 15:17
  - What if all this is just God trying to tell us New Mutants must never been seen? -- nm - Mop Mar 12, 14:53 1
    - That just makes me want to see it more. -- nm - sycor Mar 12, 14:53
Of course there are larger issues but man, what a drag for the Dayton Flyers. - Volnelk Mar 12, 14:44 1
- Adam Silver's outright cancellation of NBA season tipping point -- nm - budice Mar 12, 14:47
Some day soon, Zoom will be the only company left. Everyone will simply communicate via Zoom. Our currency will be Zoom bucks. All will be Zoom. -- nm - Mop Mar 12, 14:33 5
- qu'est-ce que c'est? -- nm - mud Mar 12, 14:42
- Teams is better. -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 12, 14:33 3
  - No doubt. Teams usage just exploded overnight on campus. Ironically, we're all talking about how we can help faculty and students use Zoom. -- nm - Mop Mar 12, 14:47 2
    - Ugh. I mean, we use Zoom from time to time but it has "technical difficulties" more often than not. - Dark Callisto Mar 12, 15:14 1
      - We've been using zoom for months at work, it hasn't had any issues that I'm aware of. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 15:23
Discover Bank CDs are now paying 1.8% for 3 to 5 years. Couple of months back I got 2.7% on a 3 year. -- nm - Meg Mar 12, 14:29
A quick and dirty graph of the annualized return of the S&P 500 since Trump took office, over the last few days -- (pic) - Reagen Mar 12, 14:27 [Attachment] 2
- It's a rope-a-dope! Setting things up for a huge uptick! -- nm - decline Mar 12, 14:30
- womp womp -- nm - JackDawson Mar 12, 14:30
So, yeah, wegmans was nuts just now. -- nm - znufrii Mar 12, 14:26 4
- I could really go for some Wegman's Garlic and Herb cheese spread. That stuff is like cheesy, spreadable crack. -- nm - sycor Mar 12, 14:52
- Oh, I bet. I'm thinking of going really late tonight -- nm - decline Mar 12, 14:50
- I kind of welcome the challenge of cooking everything in the cabinets at home. -- nm - groiny Mar 12, 14:28 1
  - if people remember how to cook food -- nm - budice Mar 12, 14:49
NASCAR ratings up 1800% -- nm - budice Mar 12, 14:25 1
- And number of drunken infield accidents down by 30%! -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 14:27
At least we have ST -- nm - eag Mar 12, 14:25 8
- CANCELED! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Mar 12, 15:04
- You're gonna jinx us. -- nm - Mop Mar 12, 14:32
- dont jinx it. Bery might need to social distance the posts on the webpage -- nm - budice Mar 12, 14:26 5
  - Social distance THIS post! - Spawn Mar 12, 14:28 3
    - Posts need more kerning, Bery! -- nm - Max Mar 12, 14:41 2
      - Line-heights need to be increased by 2em! -- nm - Beryllium Mar 12, 14:52 1
        
        Honestly, I kind of like it. -- (pic) - Beryllium Mar 12, 14:53 [Attachment]
  - Well at the verry least he may have to deep clean ST -- nm - eag Mar 12, 14:28
Sycor, when is your co-worker's trip? That's the key question. - David Mar 12, 14:25 3
- Next week. -- nm - sycor Mar 12, 14:25 2
  - They're probably screwed, sorry. -- nm - David Mar 12, 14:30 1
    - Yeah seems like a really bad idea to make a trip right now, especially to a place that might not be open. - sycor Mar 12, 14:53
So when do we start seeing stores and retailers close - eag Mar 12, 14:23 5
- do restaurants count? we have a bunch, and a lot more on the edge about to topple. -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 12, 14:41
- Lots of temporary (hopefully) restaurant closures here. -- nm - psilotum Mar 12, 14:27
- What sort of stores? I mean, in Italy, which is in lockdown, places to buy food remain open. -- nm - JackDawson Mar 12, 14:26 1
  - Non essential stores -- nm - eag Mar 12, 14:28
- Has been happening for a decade or so. - Spawn Mar 12, 14:25
Opportunity! -- nm - XFL Mar 12, 14:23 2
- Good point. When does the regular season start? -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 14:26
- That's exactly what he's thinking. With no other sports, maybe people will discover the greatness of Vinceball! -- nm - David Mar 12, 14:24
The ball isn't tipped, and there you are. You're not running for your life. You're not a shooting star. -- nm - David Mar 12, 14:20 9
- 😔 -- nm - Krusty Mar 12, 14:41
- It's really amazing to think of the money lost on all of this. Hours of programming for several networks (and the related commercial rates), arenas, - pmb Mar 12, 14:30 4
  - Upside: 1000% less NAPA Know How ads. -- nm - Reagen Mar 12, 14:45
  - Right, people don't fully appreciate the inter-dependency of the economy until matters like this arise. -- nm - David Mar 12, 14:31 2
    - We, along with several of our clients host various events for the NCAA tournaments, renting out bars for the night (and/or day) - pmb Mar 12, 14:34 1
      - Yeah, places like Wrigleyville and Bravesville in Cobb County will get savaged by this. -- nm - David Mar 12, 14:37
- If they don't have the tournament how will they know who to vacate the championship from in 3 years? -- nm - spamlet Mar 12, 14:30
- No shining moment, you don't know who you are. -- nm - Spawn Mar 12, 14:23 1
  - I hate that we're making these posts. It seems impossible. -- nm - David Mar 12, 14:23

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